“A thousand things I wanna say to you, but it’s too late now.” – Goldfinger – Counting the Days
9861. Days alive.
~3200. Days since graduating high school.
1651. Days since graduating college.
1494. Consecutive days of singleness.
782. Days sober.
145. Days since starting my job.
131. Days without a haircut.
51. Days without shaving.
1. Days until 27.
These are the days of my life. What are yours?
(Hint: use the date duration calculator.)
Hesitance kills ideas. It kills progress. It kills momentum.
Hesitance kills your dreams.
If you constantly worship at the altar of hesitation, you forfeit.
I want to discuss many things with you, oh my faithful blog readers. The very nature of the topics I want to discuss make them difficult to bring up.
How do you discuss Trust and continue trusting people when somebody you once called “friend” breaks the trust you had and throws your darkest secrets at you like daggers?
How do you discuss guilt when you try to ignore the source of the guilt? It’s easy to lie to yourself and pretend it’s easily ignored. It’s not easy to ignore.
One group of verses I looked at earlier today was the following. Specifically, it’s discussing people who were Christians, but fell away from the teachings of God and no longer live according to the commandments God set forth in his Word (the Bible).
2 John 1:9-11:
“Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.”
Another set of verses addresses the importance of Christians seeking fellowship (time spent together sharing life and truth) with each other. It’s something I’ve been ignoring the last few months for a variety of reasons, but aim to change.
Hebrews 10:24 – 25:
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t make decisions on January 1, anyear A.D., because of guilt. Any other day of a year, however, guilt is an acceptable motivator.
On January 3, 2008, I made a decision: in 2009, I will be Samson. I’m not going to shave or cut the hair on my head, and I’m going to become a hairy beast.
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The story of Samson comes from the Book of Judges in the Bible – it starts in Judges 13 which you can read in the English Standard Version or any other version.
I had a wonderful Thanksgiving week in Nebraska.
I left for Nebraska on Tuesday and arrived in the late afternoon. Jenny met me at the airport. Meanwhile, Phil was finishing his graduate classes for the day, returning home, and cleaning the shower before I arrived.
I enjoyed spending a lot of time with Phil and Jenny while I was there. They’ve been married for 1.5+ years now and I appreciated the opportunity to observe two of my friends and how they treat each other in the context of marriage. I saw a lot of respect, concern, grace, and love between them in their words and deeds. I’m impressed and very grateful to have them as friends.
The Nebraska vs. Colorado football game on Friday was an incredible game to witness. It was high scoring, and ended w/ the right team winning — Go Big Red! My favorite moment was watching Ndamukong Suh (Nebraska #93 Defensive Tackle) put the smackdown on Cody Hawkins (Colorado #7 QB) while returning an interception for a touchdown.
Many games of Carcassonne the board game were played while I was there. Though I was experienced with playing the game, I only won on one occasion and didn’t know a couple rules correctly. However, I felt justified on returning home and realizing that my rules were different due to their being rule changes made over the course of the game’s history. (Source)
My iPod broke. Today, I bought a new one.
Seeing other college friends was fantastic as well. Many people came over on Saturday night, hung out, talked, and ate soup.
Other things: mediocre Mexican food and superb conversation w/ Jesse and Tyler and Nail Bunny, free dinner at Lazlos w/ Phil, Jenny, and Ben when the server lost our order, espresso shots at a new coffee shop, meeting w/ Hank (Aaron) at B&N at closing time to purchase football tickets, chilling w/ Varv and Linda, and brunch w/ Erika and friends.
One of the biggest revelations of the trip was the realization that there are numerous, attractive, single females in the world who notice my existence and appreciate partaking in conversations. I need to do a better job of finding a more local variety.